Ridgewood Veterinary Hospital

What Ridgewood Veterinary Hospital does

Ridgewood Veterinary Hospital is a single-location, AAHA-accredited companion animal hospital operating in Ridgewood, New Jersey, as part of the VCA Animal Hospitals network (ultimately owned by Mars Incorporated). The facility employs 11 staff and serves local pet owners across a broad clinical and ancillary service menu, including primary care, advanced care, preventive care, alternative medicine, exotic animal medicine under the ZooMED program, pet boarding, and pet grooming.

The hospital runs on VCA's enterprise digital infrastructure, deploying the myVCA mobile application for client engagement, CareClub subscription-based wellness plans for preventive care, and an Emergency Virtual Waiting Room tool to manage same-day access. This platform layer is supplied by the parent network rather than developed locally, indicating a franchise-like operating model in which back-office and client-facing technology are centralized.

Revenue is generated through fee-for-service veterinary consultations and procedures, CareClub wellness plan subscriptions, and ancillary boarding and grooming revenue streams. The customer base consists of individual pet-owning households in the Ridgewood trade area, with no disclosed enterprise or institutional clients. As a subsidiary within the Mars/VCA portfolio, the hospital's financial results are not separately reported.

Name

Ridgewood Veterinary Hospital

Legal name

VCA Ridgewood Veterinary Hospital

Website

https://ridgewoodvet.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Ridgewood Veterinary Hospital is an AAHA-accredited single-location companion animal hospital in Ridgewood, New Jersey, operating within the VCA Animal Hospitals (Mars Incorporated) network. It serves local pet owners with primary, advanced, preventive, alternative, and exotic animal medicine plus boarding and grooming.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Veterinary Services

NAICS

Veterinary Services (54194), Pet Care (except Veterinary) Services (812910)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

General Practice Veterinary Clinics (Wellness & Primary Care) (HLAMAAAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Veterinary Internal Medicine & Oncology Centers (HLAMACAD), Veterinary-Affiliated/Medical Boarding (HSANADAG)

Keywords

• Veterinary services
• Animal hospital care
• Pet boarding grooming
• Exotic animal medicine
• Veterinary diagnostics

Headquarters

HQ city

Ridgewood

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Veterinary Services Revenue: Fee-for-service veterinary medical care including examinations, surgeries, diagnostics, dental care, and treatments. Revenue generated through one-time service fees for consultations, procedures, and medical treatments.
2. Pet Boarding and Day Care: Overnight boarding and day care services for various animal types including dogs, cats, birds, and pocket pets. Extended stay options available.
3. Pet Grooming Services: Bathing and nail trimming services for pets
4. Prescription Medications and Products: In-house pharmacy and online shop for pet medications, therapeutic diets, supplements, and pet care products
5. CareClub Wellness Plans: Subscription-based wellness plans providing personalized pet health care with spread-out payments

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Ridgewood Veterinary Hospital is an AAHA-accredited animal hospital providing comprehensive veterinary medical, surgical, and diagnostic services for dogs, cats, birds, pocket pets, rabbits, and zoo/exotic animals. Service lines include primary care, advanced specialty care (cardiology, oncology, surgery, rehabilitation), preventive care, alternative medicine, pet boarding and grooming, and emergency care. The practice also offers subscription-based CareClub wellness plans and the myVCA digital platform for appointment booking and prescription management.

Product overview

Ridgewood Veterinary Hospital is a VCA Animal Hospital location providing comprehensive veterinary care services. The offering consists of a unified veterinary hospital with multiple service lines: Primary Care for general health needs, Advanced Care for specialty services (cardiology, oncology, surgery, diagnostics), Preventive Care for wellness and prevention, Alternative Medicine for integrative treatments, Pet Boarding and Grooming for boarding and grooming needs, and ZooMED Animal Care for exotic animals. The hospital also operates CareClub wellness plans as a membership-based preventive care program and myVCA as a digital platform for appointment booking, prescription refills, and health record management. This is a service-based veterinary practice rather than a software product.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CareClub: Wellness plans offering personalized pet health care

Products and services

• Primary Care General veterinary medical services for pet owners including allergy and itchy skin relief, anesthesia, dental care and dental X-rays, dentistry, DNA breed testing, ear checks, emergency care, euthanasia services, full diagnostics, general surgery, geriatric medicine, health certificates, health exams, hospice care, hospitalization, in-house endoscopy, in-house laboratory, in-house pharmacy, in-office surgical suite, intensive care, internal medicine, isolation ward, oxygen and transfusion therapy, pain management, radiology, root canals, routine surgeries, spays and neuters, urology, and video otoscopy.
• Advanced Care Specialty veterinary services including animal rehabilitation, bone and joint surgery, cardiology, chemotherapy, cold laser therapy, dermatology, digital radiology, echocardiography, EKG, endoscopy, laser surgery, OFA X-ray, oncology, ophthalmology, reproductive services, soft tissue surgery, stem cell therapy, tonopen, and ultrasound.
• Preventive Care Wellness and preventive services including adult and senior wellness, flea and tick control, immunizations, microchipping, parasite control, preventive medicine, vaccinations, weight management programs, wellness exams, and wellness testing.
• Alternative Medicine Non-traditional veterinary treatments including acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, and herbal medicine for companion animals.
• Canine and Feline Diabetes Care Specialized diabetes management services for dogs and cats, including dedicated cat diabetes and dog diabetes programs.
• Pet Boarding Overnight and extended stay accommodations for pets including avian boarding, cat boarding, climate-controlled boarding, daily exercise programs, dog boarding, doggy day care, extended pet stay options, and pocket pet boarding.
• Pet Grooming Grooming services for pets including bathing and nail trimming.
• Pet Counseling Behavioral and training services for pets including obedience training.
• ZooMED Animal Care Specialized veterinary care services for exotic and zoo animals including birds, pocket pets, rabbits, and other non-traditional species.
• CareClub Wellness Plans Personalized, membership-based pet health care wellness plans providing ongoing preventive care with spread-out monthly payments.
• VCA Online Shop Online store offering pet medications, therapeutic diets, supplements, and pet care products across categories including arthritis and pain, dental care, ear care, eye care, flea and tick prevention, and food, with home delivery.

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Mars Inc.coreOthersParent company ownership. VCA Animal Hospitals is an affiliate of Mars Inc., providing corporate backing and resources for the network of animal hospitals.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Others

• Rover: Online marketplace for pet boarding, dog walking, and pet sitting. Competes indirectly with Ridgewood's in-house boarding and doggy day-care services, particularly for price- or convenience-driven pet owners.
• Zoetis: Global animal-health pharmaceutical and diagnostics company. Not a direct competitor, but a key supplier to community vet hospitals like Ridgewood and an indirect indicator of the broader veterinary services tailwind.

Broad incumbents

• BluePearl Pet Hospital: Specialty and emergency veterinary hospital network also owned by Mars Inc. Directly comparable to Ridgewood's 'Advanced Care' service lines (cardiology, oncology, internal medicine, surgery) and functions as a referral destination that VCA hospitals like Ridgewood can route complex cases to.
• Banfield Pet Hospital: Largest general veterinary chain in the US (operated by Mars Inc. alongside VCA). Comparable model of multi-site general practice, wellness plans (Optimum Wellness), in-house lab/pharmacy, and standardized care protocols serving pet-owner consumers.
• Petco (Vetco Clinics + full-service hospitals): Operates low-cost Vetco vaccination clinics inside Petco stores and increasingly full-service veterinary hospitals. Comparable in offering wellness, vaccinations, and primary care to pet-owner consumers, particularly for price-sensitive segments in suburban markets.
• PetSmart / Banfield co-located clinics: PetSmart stores historically host Banfield clinics; the combined retail-plus-vet model competes for the same suburban pet-owner foot traffic as Ridgewood's integrated boarding, grooming, and pharmacy offering.
• VCA Animal Hospitals: Ridgewood is itself a VCA location, but VCA as a network is the closest broad incumbent—operating 1,000+ animal hospitals across the US and Canada with the same AAHA standards, myVCA digital platform, CareClub wellness plans, and Mars Inc. backing that Ridgewood leverages.

Direct peers

• Caring Hands Animal Hospital: Multi-doctor community animal hospital group in the Mid-Atlantic offering primary care, advanced dentistry, and boarding—closely comparable to Ridgewood's single-site, full-service community hospital positioning in an affluent suburb.
• MedVet: Multi-location specialty and emergency veterinary hospital group offering cardiology, oncology, internal medicine, surgery, and rehab services—directly comparable to the advanced-care menu marketed by Ridgewood, with a similar community-referral model.

Regional players

• ASPCA Animal Hospital: Non-profit veterinary hospital in New York City offering primary and specialty care. Regional comparable for advanced services like oncology and internal medicine, though it serves a different (urban, subsidized) patient mix than Ridgewood.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/askVCA
• Facebookfacebook.com/Ridgewoodvet
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ridgewood-veterinary-hospital
• Instagraminstagram.com/vca

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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